Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca...
by Swizec on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:16AM
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Depends on the species. Mine doesn’t talk, he instead learned to whistle. His species (sun conure) doesn’t normally whistle, he picked it up from me. It’s more pleasant than the 80db screams so we encourage it.
He used to say his name sort of (if you added some human pattern recognition magic) but stopped after we moved apartments. No idea why.
The worst is when he mimics human speech patterns. You can tell it isn’t words but it’s close enough to distract you every time.
Main thing with parrots is that they’re more work than people think. Like human children they get bored, have tantrums, internal emotional states, and respond to the same stimuli differently based on mood. And unlike children they cannot be reasoned with. Some are smart enough to lie and obscure because they have theory of mind.
And they stay like that for 30 years. Some species even longer.
He used to say his name sort of (if you added some human pattern recognition magic) but stopped after we moved apartments. No idea why.
The worst is when he mimics human speech patterns. You can tell it isn’t words but it’s close enough to distract you every time.
Main thing with parrots is that they’re more work than people think. Like human children they get bored, have tantrums, internal emotional states, and respond to the same stimuli differently based on mood. And unlike children they cannot be reasoned with. Some are smart enough to lie and obscure because they have theory of mind.
And they stay like that for 30 years. Some species even longer.